1906 San Francisco Earthquake Street level view looking north towards the City Hall dome and the Hall of Records on the left, showing people leaving on foot and by horse and buggy escaping the city. To the right is the tower of St. Boniface's Church on Golden Gate Avenue. UC Berkeley Earthquake Engineering Research Center Photos of 1906 damage from UC Berkeley Earthquake Engineering Research Center's Earthquake Image Information System. The 1906 earthquake that struck San Francisco had a rough magnitude of 7.8 and ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time because of the damage it caused. (1906). Severe shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. We gratefully acknowledge that many of the photos included in our pages came from these sites. San Francisco Mission District burning in the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Photos. The photographs of the City by the Bay … Historic photos of San Francisco taken before the great 1906 earthquake have been found in Scandinavia. On April 18, 1906, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake centered near the city of San Francisco struck, toppling hundreds of buildings and starting city-wide fires that burned for days. The original caption reads: “Probably Fulton Street, near Gough. Larkin Street. Picture courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on April 18 with an estimated “moment magnitude” of 7.8 and a maximum “Mercalli intensity” of “XI” (“Extreme”). 1906 San Francisco earthquake: Old photos offer new glimpses of devastation Bill Van Niekerken April 18, 2018 Updated: July 29, 2019 4:27 p.m. …